The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.
BERNARD MALAMUDI don’t think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
More Bernard Malamud Quotes
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Where to look if you’ve lost your mind?
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Comedy, I imagine, is harder to do consistently than tragedy, but I like it spiced in the wine of sadness.
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I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.
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Charity you can give even when you haven’t got.
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The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
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The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.
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The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime
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Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It’s a strange world, why make it stranger?
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It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.
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You could not pity anything if you weren’t a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.
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You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature.
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All my life I wanted to accomplish something worthwhile-a thing people will say took a little something.
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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist.
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The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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